Carine Abouseif is a features editor at The Walrus. Her writing has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Maisonneuve, and elsewhere.

Shireen Ahmed is a multi-platform Senior Contributor with CBC Sports, a TEDx speaker, mentor, and award-winning sports activist who focuses on the intersections of racism and misogyny in sports. She is the co-creator and co-host of the “Burn It All Down” feminist sports podcast team, and teaches Sports Journalism and Sports Media at X University, in Toronto, Canada. She lives with her children and her cat. Twitter: @_shireenahmed_ Website: www.shireenahmed.com

Laura Beeston is a writer, editor, producer, host and content strategist living in Montréal. Trained in critical theory at the University of Winnipeg, she earned her second undergrad in journalism and women’s studies from Concordia, but cut her teeth and got the best training possible as EIC of The Link, an independent, student-run media that’s been in operation since 1980. After journalism school, Laura worked as a reporter in newsrooms across the country, including The Winnipeg Free Press, The Montreal Gazette, The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star. Her writing has also appeared in the Montreal Mirror (RIP), on CJAD800 and in Maclean’s magazine. Headhunted back to Montreal, she became the lead multimedia content producer for the creative business conference C2 Montréal in 2018, where she researched, chased, planned, managed, produced and launched multiple projects each event cycle. Laura became a freelancer (again) in June of 2021 and now works with a variety of clients including The Canada Media Fund, Detraform, Ma Biographie, The Institute for Research on Public Policy, Blanche & Yong, Campus Party Canada and MTL 24/24. She is delighted to be at NASH and share her experience.

Kéven Breton is a sports journalist with Radio-Canada and is a host on AMI-télé, a French-language TV program focusing on accessibility to all viewers.

Jesse Brown is a Canadian journalist, media personality, and businessperson. He is the founder and principal host of CANADALAND, a talk show podcast he started in autumn 2013 that has by late 2014 expanded into a crowdfunded media site, which solicits donations to fund operations.

New Canadian Media is a member-based non-profit that exists to showcase immigrant journalism and amplify the work of journalists from various immigrant/ethnic backgrounds.

Jason is a Visual Editor at The New York Times. Previously he led visuals at The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, and a series of weeklies in Ottawa and Toronto. He was once Graphics Bureau Chief for CUP and started at La Rotonde and The Fulcrum. You can find him online @Jason A. Chiu

Campbell Clark has been a political writer in The Globe and Mail’s Ottawa bureau since 2000. Before that he worked for The Montreal Gazette and the National Post. He writes about Canadian politics and foreign policy.

Scott Colby is the Opinions editor at the Toronto Star and a national best-selling author. He lives in Toronto.

Ethan Cox is an editor and co-founder with Ricochet Media, and 2021 Michener-Deacon Fellow studying police misconduct in Canada. He got his start in journalism covering the 2012 student strike in Quebec, and over the past decade he has worked as a journalist, commentator and editor across digital, print, radio and television. As an editor at Ricochet he has had journalists on assignment at Wet'suwet'en and Fairy Creek often over the past two years, and has seen them detained, denied entry, intimidated and threatened while trying to cover police actions. This summer, he helped spearhead a successful court challenge of RCMP restrictions on the media brought by a coalition of outlets and press groups.

Stuart Coxe is President of the eOne Podcast network, based in Toronto. He is also the owner of Antica Productions, which works with eOne on various television and digital projects. His career has spanned broadcast journalism, documentary and reality TV - as well as, for the past four years, the creation of the Antica Podcast network, acquired by eOne in 2016. His journalistic career at CBC television included a stint as one of the executive producers of CBC's National News. From there he started Dragons' Den and consulted on the launch of Shark Tank that features two stars from his Canadian cast. His documentaries and specials have won multiple awards around the world - from international Emmy nominations to the Monaco Film Festival. His recent animated film and musical tour, The Secret Path, highlighted the extraordinary work of Canadian rock legend Gord Downie in bringing awareness to the grim reality of Canadian government treatment of indigenous peoples. Podcasts on the eOne network include the groundbreaking Sickboy - a comedy show about illness and Our Fake History, a uniquely frank take on some of the greatest mysteries of the past.

Cullen Crozier is a video journalist and documentary producer with APTN Investigates. He is Gwich’in, Dene and Métis based out of his home community of Somba K’e, Denendeh (Yellowknife, NT). Cullen’s work focuses on injustices facing Indigenous people in Canada. He has reported on the forced sterilization of Indigenous women in Saskatchewan, the forgotten residential school survivors of Newfoundland and Labrador and the ongoing child welfare crisis in Ontario. His documentaries have been recognized by the Michener Foundation, the Canadian Association of Journalists, Amnesty International, the Sidney Hillman Foundation, the Native American Journalists Association and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television.

Christopher Curtis is a failed construction worker who found his way to journalism 13 years ago. He recently left a job at the Montreal Gazette to launch The Rover, an award-winning journalism project. He lives in traditional Mohawk territory with his partner, their daughter, his uncle, two cats and a dog.

Matt D'Amours is a multiplatform journalist at CBC Montreal, and occasional host of the TV evening newscast. He covers a wide range of topics, including municipal and provincial politics, homelessness, culture and crime. Matt is one of CBC Montreal's handful of "Mobile Journalists," who's able to gather material on a wide variety of equipment - including a mobile phone - and then edit and deliver multiplatform reports on his own. Before joining the CBC, Matt was a staff reporter at The Link, hosting a podcast he created called "The Download" and offering live stream coverage of Montreal's various protest movements.

Mike De Souza is an investigative journalist and producer with Global News in Toronto. He has covered politics for more than a decade, focusing in recent years on energy and environment policies in government and industry. In 2017, Mike won a Canadian Association of Journalists award for his investigation that exposed a conflict of interest in the federal review of the Energy East pipeline project, which was subsequently terminated. A Montreal native, Mike has worked as a broadcast and print journalist in his home town, as well as the National Assembly in Quebec City, Parliament Hill in Ottawa and Calgary. He has worked for Reuters, Postmedia and The Montreal Gazette and as managing editor of National Observer. A specialist in filing targeted access to information requests, Mike is constantly pursuing multiple lines of questioning and investigations and he always has an eye open for his next scoop.

Viviane Fairbank has written, edited, and fact-checked for several publications, including The Walrus, the Globe and Mail, and the Literary Review of Canada—and she was nominated for Best New Writer at the 2017 National Magazine Awards. She also worked as the associate editor and head of research at The Walrus from 2017 to 2019. In partnership with Allison Baker, Carleton University’s Future of Journalism Initiative, and The Walrus, Viviane is a 2021 Michener-L. Richard O’Hagan Fellow, working to produce a free, digital curriculum and a book about fact-checking longform journalism in the post-truth era.

Dan Falk is an award-winning science journalist whose writing credits include Scientific American, National Geographic, Smithsonian, Quanta, Undark, and many other publications. He’s also a regular contributor to Ideas and Quirks & Quarks on CBC Radio. He also co-hosts BookLab, a podcast which reviews popular science books. He lives in Toronto.

Jean-Marc Fleury est professeur invité au Département d’information et de communication de l’Université Laval où il a été le premier titulaire de la Chaire de journalisme scientifique Bell Globemedia. Il a été le premier directeur général de la Fédération mondiale des journalistes scientifiques dont il demeure le conseiller principal. Jean-Marc Fleury a été journaliste scientifique au quotidien Le Soleil puis rédacteur en chef du magazine Québec Science. Il a travaillé 30 ans au Centre de recherches pour le développement international, en Afrique et au Canada. Il est diplômé en Génie Physique de l’Université Laval. Il a participé à la formation de journalistes scientifiques à travers le monde entier et prétend avoir des amis d’Abidjan à Tokyo, en passant par Bagdad, Moscou et New Delhi. Plus récemment, il a proposé la création d’algorithmes susceptibles de mettre les consensus scientifiques à la portée des journalistes et du public, projet qui a obtenu un premier financement des Fonds de recherche du Québec puis du Conseil de recherche en science humaine du Canada.

Angelyn Francis is a Toronto-based reporter for the Star, covering equity and inequality. In 2021 she was one of WXN Top 100 powerful women in Canada. She was previously a video producer at Maclean's Magazine and a freelance photographer, producer, writer, and host. Angelyn covers race, gender, culture, identity, and food sometimes all at once. She previously hosted season one of HuffPost's award-winning podcast "Born and Raised" which was about second generation Canadians and how food influences their lives.

Wendy Gillis is a crime and police reporter for the Toronto Star. Her beat coverage on police accountability and justice issues has earned her journalism awards and nominations, including being named the 2021 co-recipient of the Canadian Journalism Foundation's Landsberg Award for coverage of violence against women. Wendy has been nominated for multiple National Newspaper Awards, including in 2020 for an investigation into police use of force and in 2018 as part of a team for the Star's coverage of the Yonge St. van attack. Her four-part investigative series about Toronto serial killer Bruce McArthur earned her a nomination for investigative reporting from the Canadian Association of Journalists. When not on the crime beat, Wendy has been sent to cover breaking news in French speaking regions, including the 2016 terrorist attack in Brussels and the 2017 mosque shooting in Quebec City. She is the 2020 recipient of the R. James Travers foreign corresponding fellowship.

Aaron Goodman, Ph.D., is a faculty member in the Journalism and Communication Studies department at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, BC. His research involves collaborative testimony, oral history, and digital memorialization with vulnerable communities affected by the opioid overdose crisis, rights abuses, conflict, and genocide. 

Jack Hamilton is an associate professor of American Studies and Media Studies at the University of Virginia and the author of Just around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination. Since 2013 he has been the pop critic for Slate magazine, where he writes about music, film, sports, and other areas of culture, and his work has appeared in print and online in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, NPR, ESPN, and many other venues.

Madi Haslam is a writer and editor based in Montreal. She is currently editor-in-chief of Maisonneuve magazine. She was formerly the Arts and Ideas editor of This Magazine and host of the Policy Options podcast. She’s edited a number of features that have been nominated for National Magazine Awards, and her reporting has received two Canadian Online Publishing Awards and a CAJ nomination.

Barry Hertz is the Deputy Arts Editor and Film Editor for The Globe and Mail. He previously served as the Executive Producer of Features for The National Post, and was a manager and writer at Maclean’s before that.

Greg Horn is the founder and editor of Iorì:wase, an independent news source in Kanahwake primarily publishing news from the Kanien'kehá:ka Nation.

Tegwyn is a local journalist living and working on the unceded Coast Salish Territory of the Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ nations, colonially known as Victoria. She's passionate about making sure community news can be accessible, innovative and groundbreaking. In the warmer months, you can find her reading on the beach, picking roadside blackberries or visiting one of Victoria's many excellent patios.

Kenneth Jackson is an investigative reporter in Ottawa, Ont. with more than two decades in the business. He got his start in community newspapers before joining the Ottawa Sun in 2007 where he worked the police beat. In 2011, Jackson joined APTN to break the Bruce Carson scandal. The former senior aide to Prime Minister Stephen Harper tried using his contacts in the federal government to sign water deals with First Nations. The RCMP would charge Carson with influence peddling based on APTN's reporting. The case would make it all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, which upheld his conviction in 2018. In recent years, Jackson has focused, almost exclusively, on the child welfare system in Ontario. The work has earned multiple awards, including the 2020 Michener Award.

Arvin Joaquin is an award-winning journalist and editor. His work has appeared in Xtra Magazine, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, Maclean's, and more. His work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards, Digital Publishing Award, Canadian Association of Journalists, National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, and others.

Nashwa Lina Khan is a community educator, facilitator, and researcher. She is also a writer and poet. She holds a Masters of Environmental Studies from York University with areas of concentration focused on narrative methodologies, community and public health, refugee, and forced migration studies. Her work has been published in a variety of places including Vice, Rewire, This Magazine, and The New York Times. She is the host and producer of two podcasts, Muslim Rumspringa and Habibti Please.  Sometimes you can find her tweeting too little or too much @nashwakay.

Ahmar Khan is a National Online Journalist with Global News. Prior to joining Global News, has spent six years in television, radio and digital media reporting. He has worked in newsrooms in Ottawa, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Victoria, Kamloops, and Toronto. Khan’s coverage focuses on issues surrounding vulnerable people, racialized communities and politics. He can be found online at @AhmarSKhan

Je suis journaliste scientifique depuis 25 ans et rédacteur en chef de l'Agence Science-Presse. L'une des missions de l'Agence est d'alimenter d'autres médias en nouvelles sur la science. Plus récemment en 2016, nous avons créé le Détecteur de rumeurs, une rubrique vouée à la vérification des faits (fact-checking) en science et en santé. Je suis chargé de cours en journalisme à l'Université de Montréal et auteur de quelques livres, dont le Guide de vulgarisation (MultiMondes, 2008) et Les nouveaux journalistes (PUL, 2019), sur le journalisme à la pige. 

Anita Li is the founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of The Green Line, a hyperlocal news outlet that investigates the way we live to help young Torontonians survive and thrive in a rapidly changing city. She's also a media consultant, educator and longtime multi-platform journalist who's worked at outlets across North America. Anita is a journalism instructor at Ryerson (X) University, the City University of New York and Centennial College. She serves as a board member for the Online News Association, and co-founded Canadian Journalists of Colour in 2018. To keep up with Anita, subscribe to The Other Wave, her innovation newsletter about challenging the status quo in journalism.

Jane Lytvynenko is an award-winning reporter in the field of disinformation and online investigations. At Harvard, she is focusing developing training on investigating disinformation and researching the issue for the Media Manipulation Casebook. Lytvynenko previously spent nearly five years at BuzzFeed News, where she was a senior reporter. Her work has focused on the rise of conspiracy theories, hyperpartisan news, and extremism globally. Her investigative work has touched on extremist organizations operating in the US, disinformation network operators who manipulate social media on behalf of state actors, and online hucksters seeking to scam people out of their livelihoods. Lytvynenko also pioneered a method bringing swift and accessible debunks to mass audiences during breaking news situations which has been replicated worldwide. Jane was born in Kyiv, Ukraine and resides in Boston, MA.

A Toronto Star staff reporter, Bailey Martens is a Vancouver-raised journalist best known for her innovative longform and investigative reporting. Much of her work focuses on housing, disability and other equity issues from underrepresented communities. As a disabled journalist, Bailey is adamant about telling stories that matter to her community, lifting up other disabled journalists and proving that shoe-leather journalism can be done sitting down with a service dog by her side. She has previously worked on the digital desks at CBC News British Columbia and the National Post where her nuanced pandemic coverage set her apart. At HuffPost Canada, Bailey consistently wrote community-focused stories that resonated on a national level. As a housing reporter, Bailey spent her time digging through human rights tribunal records and listening to the 2SLGBTQIA community, unhoused people, and drug users in order to tell in-depth stories that explored how the heated housing landscape disproportionately impacts minority groups. Bailey has also worked for four student newspapers – most notably, she was the Features Editor at The Ubyssey – western Canada’s largest student newspaper. During her tenure, she co-edited three special issues, investigated systemic inequities at The University of British Columbia and solidified her love of marrying strong narrative and data. It was her work and newsroom leadership at The Ubyssey that led her to be a finalist for Student Journalist of the Year at the 2021 John H. Macdonald awards.

Carlos Martins is a media lawyer practicing in Toronto. He has been working with CUP for almost 20 years. He is a regular speaker on legal issues facing journalists and represent media clients large and small, including The Globe and Mail, CTV and Random House.

Emma McIntosh has covered environment, energy and national news. She covered misinformation and disinformation in the 2019 federal election. She has reported for StarMetro Calgary, the Toronto Star and the Calgary Herald as well as Canada's National Observer. A former Seattle-ite and dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada, Emma graduated from Ryerson University's undergraduate journalism program in 2018. She has focused on investigative journalism since 2017. Emma also covered the Alberta provincial election in April 2019. Projects she's worked on have been shortlisted for multiple national awards, including a National Newspaper Award, the Canadian Hillman Prize and CJF Jackman Award for Excellence.

Julian McKenzie is an Associate Editor for The Athletic, covering the NHL. He is also the host of The Chris Johnston Show, Zone Time with Yahoo! Sports and the Montreal Gazette's Hockey Inside/Out show. He previously worked as a part-time reporter and editor for The Canadian Press, as a live blogger and columnist for the Montreal Gazette and as a weather presenter and reporter for CTV Montreal. He has also worked for and contributed to FiveThirtyEight, Habs Eyes on the Prize, Sporting News, TSN 690, the Montreal Community Contact and elsewhere.

Julia Métraux is a health and culture writer whose work has appeared in Narratively, Verywell, Bitch Media,  Insider, Poynter and others. You can follow her on Twitter at @metraux_julia and read more of her work here. 

Jason Miller is a Toronto-based journalist and filmmaker currently serving as a member of theToronto Star’scrime and justice team after helping to spearhead the launch ofStarMetro Calgaryand theStar.comin Calgary as bureau chief in 2018. Since July 2020 Miller has served as the crime and justice reporter in Peel Region, where he's delved into a variety of issues including policing, courts, and youth justice. Miller also served as a producer and writer for the TVO true-crime feature-length documentary, SomeSort of Judas, released on the TVO network in 2017. In 2010, he received a National Newspaper Award nomination for his coverage of the case of disgraced RCAF Col. Russell Williams. He also received a 2013 Ontario Newspaper Award investigative/enterprise reporting nomination for his probe into child welfare.

Brandi Morin is an award-winning Cree/Iroquois/French journalist from Treaty 6 territory in Alberta. For the last 10 years Brandi has specialized in sharing Indigenous stories, some of which helped spark change and reconciliation in Canada’s political, cultural and social environments. Her most notable work has appeared in publications and on networks including National Geographic, Al Jazeera English, the Guardian, VICE, ELLE Canada, the Toronto Star, the New York Times, Huffpost, Indian Country Today Media Network, the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network National News, and CBC Indigenous.
Brandi won a Human Rights Reporting award from the Canadian Association of Journalists in April of 2019 for her work with the CBC’s Beyond 94 project tracking the progress of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action. Her debut memoir, Our Voice of Fire: A Story of Survival and Passion for Justice, is forthcoming with House of Anansi in 2022.

Amil Niazi is an award-winning writer and producer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Cut, The Guardian and The Globe and Mail. She is also a panelist and showrunner of CBC's weekly pop culture podcast, Pop Chat.

Roberto Rocha is an investigative data journalist at the CBC, where he marries his two great loves: telling stories and measuring things. He's among the first in Canada to specialize in the craft.

Selena Ross is a reporter at CTV Montreal, often writing longform investigations for online readers. She spent three years as an editor at Maisonneuve magazine, including two years as Editor-In-Chief. Before that, she was a reporter at the Globe and Mail, CBC Nova Scotia and the Chronicle Herald in Halifax. She has also written frequently for the Washington Post, The Guardian and the Associated Press and has produced radio documentaries for CBC and This American Life. She attended the Columbia School of Journalism and has won two CAJ awards and two Atlantic Journalism Association awards.

Rosa Saba writes about business and employment for the Toronto Star. A graduate of Carleton University's Journalism and Humanities program, she has previously worked for StarMetro Calgary, the Ottawa Business Journal, and the Globe and Mail.

Aphrodite Salas is Director of the Graduate Diploma Program in Journalism at Concordia University. Her research focuses on journalism education and TRC Call to Action 86. Aphrodite is currently working on multimedia projects with Indigenous Clean Energy, partners in remote northern communities and CTV. Her most recent work is a multimedia collaboration with the First Nation community Kiashke Zaaging Anishinaabek. 

Timothy Sawa began his career in journalism as the editor for his university newspaper, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Over the next 30 years Timothy worked across Northern and Western Canada, first in print and then for the CBC. Today Timothy works as a producer with the CBCs Fifth Estate in Toronto. Timothy exposed a decades long cover up of sexual abuse in Scouts Canada, uncovered a widespread failure to deal with sexual assult reports at Canadian universities and spent 12 years reporting on Peter Nygard, a wealthy Canadian fashion designer accused of sex traficking and rape. Timothy recently produced and hosted a podcast series about Peter Nygard for the CBC.

Matthew Scianitti has worked for TSN for nearly a decade. The Toronto-native has worked on a number of events for the national sports network, including the 2018 Olympics, NBA, NFL, and NHL playoffs, and March Madness; as well as sideline work throughout the CFL season, including five Grey Cup broadcasts. Scianitti has also worked on a number of TSN Original features. Before TSN, Scianitti worked for CBC Sports and the National Post. Scianitti graduated with a Honours BA from York University, and also has a Masters of Journalism from ‘X’ University. Scianitti has also been nominated for two National Magazine Awards.

Cherise Seucharan is a reporter at Canadaland. Previously she was a reporter for the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star where she covered health, migration, Indigenous issues and more. She was also the lead organizer for the Vancouver chapter of Canadian Journalists of Colour. Cherise holds a master of journalism degree from the University of British Columbia, and as an International Reporting Program fellow she travelled to Cali, Colombia, to report on former soldiers for The Guardian. You can find more of her work in Vice News Canada, CBC, The Tyee and The Discourse. Prior to her career in journalism, Cherise was a researcher in digital rights, privacy and free expression.

Craig Silverman is an award-winning journalist and author and one of the world's leading experts on online disinformation, fake news, and digital investigations. He recently joined ProPublica as a reporter investigating voting, platforms, disinformation, and online manipulation. He's also the editor of the European Journalism Centre’s Verification Handbook series. Craig previously served as media editor of BuzzFeed News, where he pioneered coverage of digital disinformation and media manipulation. He received a George Polk Award in 2021 for a series of articles about Facebook, and is the recipient of the Carey McWilliams Award from the American Political Science Association, which honors “a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics.” His 2019 series exposing a global Facebook advertising scam was also named investigation of the year by the Canadian Association of Journalists.  His journalism and books have also been honored by the Mirror Awards, U.S. National Press Club, National Magazine Awards (Canada), and Crime Writers of Canada.

Mahima Singh is a data developer and designer with the Canadian Press. She previously worked on the data desk on the investigative team for the Palm Beach Post in 2016, where she covered President Trump, school shootings, hurricanes and the drug epidemic in South Florida. Before that, Singh worked as a data journalist for Indian news sources such as BBC New Delhi, analyzing research and data across South and East Asia.

Kristy Snell is an award-winning multi-platform journalist who has delivered newscasts for radio and television audiences both regionally and nationally. She is currently the morning radio news anchor at CBC Montreal. She is a part-time faculty member with Concordia University's Department of Journalism and also teaches several courses within CBC, including Reporting in Indigenous Communities.

Brian Stelter is the anchor of CNN’s Reliable Sources which examines the week’s top media stories every Sunday at 11:00 a.m. ET on CNN/U.S, and the chief media correspondent for CNN Worldwide. Stelter reports for CNN Media, and writes a nightly e-newsletter.

Niko Stratis is a freelance writer whose work tends to focus on culture, trans identity and often the intersection of the two. She regularly appears in outlets such as SPIN, Xtra, Bitch and more and has a recurring column in Catapult titled Everyone Is Gay, which explores personal identity of a closeted youth through 90s music and 90s music media criticism. When she’s not writing, she’s extremely online on Twitter or singing original songs about her pets very loudly. She lives with her fiancé, two cats and one dog in Toronto. She is a cancer.

Fatima Syed is a Mississauga-based journalist and host of The Backbench podcast on CANADALAND. She has worked for The Walrus, the Toronto Star, The Logic and National Observer, where she established the outlet’s Queen’s Park bureau, with an emphasis on coverage of environmental and energy policy. She is a National Magazine Award nominee, a Digital Publishing Award winner, and has contributed chapters to two anthologies published by Coach House Books—Subdivided: City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity and House Divided. She is also the vice-president of the Canadian Association of Journalists.

Ryan Thorpe is an investigative reporter for the Winnipeg Free Press. A graduate of Niagara College’s journalism program, his work has appeared in, among other publications, the Literary Review of Canada, This Magazine and the Hamilton Spectator.

Jesse Winter is an award-winning photojournalist and reporter currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has reported from north of the Arctic Circle to the mangrove forests of Nigeria's Niger Delta. His recent work focuses primarily on social justice, the environment and government accountability stories. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Toronto Star, The National Post, The Ottawa Citizen, The Winnipeg Free Press, The Yukon News, Up Here Magazine and numerous other publications. He is most at home on the road armed with his camera, note pad and a few gallons of coffee.

Brandy Yanchyk is an award winning independent documentary filmmaker and journalist. Since 2009, Brandy has made fourteen documentaries and nine series for television. She has her own travel documentary series "Seeing Canada" and "Seeing the USA" on Amazon Prime Video, PBS stations, Create TV, CPAC and on Air Canada. Brandy has worked as a reporter and producer for BBC World TV’s The Travel Show. She has also lived in London, England and worked as a journalist for BBC World TV and the BBC World Service. Brandy has been a reporter for the CBC in the Toronto, Edmonton and London, UK bureaus.

Nadine Yousif is a Toronto-based reporter for the Star, covering mental health. A graduate of Carleton University's School of Journalism, she has also worked for Maclean’s Magazine, Star Edmonton, The Globe and Mail, the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal and StarMetro Halifax. Nadine originally hails from Baghdad, Iraq, and has previously lived across the Middle East for a decade.

Aliya Pabani is a Toronto-based artist and audio producer. Previously, she was host/producer of Canadaland’s arts and culture podcast, The Imposter. Her recent work has appeared on the BBC, at The Barbican, The Toronto Biennial of Art, Images Festival, and in McSweeney's 64: The Audio Issue. Currently, Pabani organizes with the Encampment Support Network and co-produces their podcast We Are Not the Virus, a doc series that draws on the four elements—earth, water, wind and fire—to explore different facets of life in Toronto’s encampments through the stories of their residents. The series was named one of Apple Podcasts' "Best of 2020".

Amber Bracken is a lifelong Albertan and covers assignments across the province and farther from home. After getting her start as a staffer at the Edmonton Sun, she has moved on to a freelance career and the pursuit of long-term projects. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, BuzzFeed, The Wall Street Journal, Maclean's, and Canadian Geographic.

A musician and writer from Montreal, Rob is the host of The Insurgents podcast and The Rob Rousseau Show, and contributed to publications such as A.Side (formerly AUX.tv,) Paste Magazine, VICE Sports, The Classical, and others.

Brent Jolly is the managing director of the National NewsMedia Council of Canada (NNC). He previously served as the NNC’s director of communications, research, and community management. Prior to joining the NNC in 2016, Brent worked as a journalist with a variety of news outlets as both a writer and editor.

Valérie Ouellet is an award-winning investigative reporter based in Toronto. She uses her data analysis and coding skills to find and report on exclusive stories for the CBC News Investigative Unit. She has won an Amnesty International Media Award for documenting COVID cases in Canadian jails (2021) and a Dan McArthur Award for shedding light on Ontario’s broken school violence reporting system (2020). Her stories were finalists for the CAJ Data Journalism Award multiple times. She has a Master of Journalism degree from the University of King's College in Halifax (2015).

Nico Lang is an award-winning reporter and editor. They are an LGBTQ+ correspondent for VICE and a frequent contributor to NBC News and Xtra. Their work has been featured in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, Washington Post, Vox, BuzzFeed, Jezebel, The Guardian, Out, The Advocate, and the L.A. Times.

Rayne Fisher-Quann is a writer, essayist, and online creator currently working as an associate editor for NEXT Magazine. She also publishes cultural criticism and essays to over 10 000 subscribers on her Substack, internet princess, and talks about feminism, leftism, and internet culture to an online audience of over 200,000 followers.